Wednesday, August 31, 2016

It is hilarious that the United States government has actual official offices to promote the violent racist goals of violent racist group supremacists, staffed with blood-pouring-from-the-fangs monsters out of a Nazi cartoon.

"The Sad Decline of VOX: How a Once-Promising Media Outlet Became a Bastion of Neoliberal Corporatism". My only problem with this is that it assumes somebody takes Vox seriously, which is untrue.

"Could Christian Zionism explain Green Party leader’s threats to resign?". Unlikely, as environmentalists don't tend to be religious fruitcakes (the standard fruitcake position is that we don't have to worry about our dominion over the environment as God wants us to pollute). I think she has a 'donor' problem.

"Charity Watch and Clinton Foundation". A scam charity which piggybacks off the real charitable work of others.

"Hillary and the Clinton Foundation: Exemplars of America’s Political Rot". Note Huma's Saudi connections. Can you imagine what the press would be saying if Trump employed a pimp with that kind of background?

"What Syria's Kurds "Think" They are Fighting For Versus Reality". It is possible that American support for the Kurds was intended to provoke a Turkish anti-Kurd invasion, as part of the Jew-directed general Yinon plan for Syria.

"In the Shadow of the CIA: Liberalism’s Big Embarrassing Moment". It shouldn't be surprising at all that the American 'left' is entirely the creation and stooge of the CIA.

Sunday, August 28, 2016

"DCLeaks Website Down, Twitter Suspended After Releasing Soros Docs". Suspended from Twitter, and only the Soros stuff now offline. Along with the (((media))) ban on reporting on the Soros leak, (((they))) couldn't make it any clearer.

"The War On Whistleblowers & Why America's Next President Will Kill Julian Assange". Given what Assange has had to put up with, I call out anybody who questions his motives. In many ways Assange started out as tragically politically naive, and he has paid a horrible price for it (while leaving his early messaging somewhat ambiguous), but the people who are really seriously suspect are those who attack him. The covert echo.

"The imperial conspiracy has always been bipartisan, reflecting ruling
class control of both major political parties and corporate ownership of
the media. This election season, however, the institutional Republican
Party has been broken by the billionaire brat America-Firster white
nationalist from Queens, who violated the ruling class pact by, at least
temporarily, challenging the doctrines of free flowing global capital,
“humanitarian” military intervention (regime change, or its euphemism,
“nation building”) and a permanent U.S. war footing with the Russians
and Chinese. It is these heresies -- not Trump’s raging racism,
which is standard issue for the White Man’s Party -- that have
stampeded multinational capital, most of the denizens of the national
security state, and the whole imperial foreign policy establishment into
Hillary Clinton’s “Big Tent.” Trump’s continued popularity with a white
male constituency that was always assumed to be a bastion of the War
Party, is seen as an existential threat to the legitimacy of the U.S.
quest for global dominance. When Trump says that Obama created ISIS,
it does not matter much whether he understands the import of his own
words. He is speaking an essential truth that goes to the heart of one
of the Greatest Lies Ever Told: that the U.S. and its closest allies are
sworn enemies of jihadist terror. The voluminously documented truth --
not a conspiracy theory -- is that the Americans and Saudis created the
international jihadist network nearly four decades ago and have now come
to rely on Islamic jihadists as foot soldiers for imperialism in the
Muslim world."

"Saudi Arabia Cries Foul Play in Yemen". The Saudis - pure, unadulterated evil - are never going to be influenced by morality, so the only way out of this is for the Houthis to figure out a way to make the political cost on the Saudi princes of the Saudi slaughter too high.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

"Why Did the Saudi Regime and Other Gulf Tyrannies Donate Millions to the Clinton Foundation?". It must be the liberal branch of Wahhabism.

"How The Hillary 'Victory Fund' Uses State Democratic Committees To Launder Money To The DNC". Ten times the shekels!

Good link from the comments but the tragedy, politely suggested in its comments, is that the solid information in the article is terminally damaged by the nutty truther controlled demolition views of the author. The contradictions of trutherism have wrecked serious American conspiracy theory. More Clarke, less thermite!

"Bolivian minister beaten to death by miners, government says" "Lithium, a Strategic Resource: Here’s Why The US Wants To Break Bolivia To Bits With Hybrid War"

"Assange Assassination Attempt? Cops Took 2 Hours To Respond To Embassy Breach". The standard Clinton response to a threat is a murder, and Assange has been talking a lot about his 'October surprise' leak of Hillary embarrassments. I don't have even the slightest doubt that this was an assassination attempt, proved conclusively by the non-reaction of London police (who would have been on Assange in a matter of seconds had he tried to walk out the front door of the embassy).

Classic limited hangout, yeah he was in our custody, but we didn't hire him, or train him, or anything!: "U.S. Military Now Says ISIS Leader Was Held in Notorious Abu Ghraib Prison". Camp Adder is Ali Air Base, which appears to be the graduate school of Jihadist University. Note this excerpt from Madsen's book - see also here - on Petraeus using Taliban Sunni mercenaries operating out of Ali Air Base!

"On The Bizarre Media Blackout Of Hacked George Soros Documents". Bizarre? It would have been bizarre had they mentioned it.

"Are the Clintons Israeli Agents?" by Philip Giraldi. Good in and of itself (see also "Let’s talk about Russian influence"), but contains a reference by Giraldi to MEGA in the comments (I assume "he is not a Clinton" means MEGA isn't Hillary!):

". . . the FBI concluded that someone working in the White House was MEGA but
they decided that they did not necessarily have enough evidence to
convince a jury. He is still around and appears in the media. As I would
prefer not to get sued I will not name him but he is not a Clinton
(though he worked for them as well as for the two Bushes)."

which turns into a rousing game of 20 questions by the commentators and Giraldi, in which Giraldi shoots down initialed guesses of various favorite Jewish traitors (there is, needless to say, a long list), but hasn't yet shot down "Is it HI? (last name suggesting gross & disgusting)".

So alleged MEGA:

is still around

appears in the media;

worked for the Clintons;

worked for Bush 1; and

worked for Bush 2.

Martin Indyk might fit, starting out at AIPAC, going to WINEP, and almost fitting the "still around and appears in the media . . . worked for them as well as for the two Bushes" description, but he didn't work for Bush 1 (and in fact criticized Bush 1's handling of the Gulf War, though many of his WINEP associates did work for Bush 1). Note that none other than Madeleine Albright restored Indyk's stripped security clearance, lost while he was American ambassador to Israel in an odd laptop story that sounds like a cover for something worse.

"New Abedin Emails Reveal Hillary Clinton State Department Gave Special Access to Top Clinton Foundation Donors"

"Over Half Of Hillary's Private Meetings As Secretary Were With Donors Who Paid $156 Million"

I think anyone can see this is the very definition of corruption, but the Clintonistas call it "the latest fooflah", "the kind of thing that happens all the time", which "demonstrate a surprisingly high level of integrity from Hillary Clinton's shop at Foggy Bottom".

Monday, August 22, 2016

"Death Of Brother Of "Wounded Boy In Orange Seat" Appears To Be An Add-On Fake" "Footage Of Boy In Aleppo Is Opportunistic, Vile Propaganda From Western Media" "Syrian boy’s image shamelessly exploited for West’s war agenda". Does Soros know something about Hillary's health that we don't?

"Hillary Clinton’s Uncanny Fulfillment of Israel’s Yinon Plan for a Middle East Riven with Conflict"

Sunday, August 21, 2016

"Vote for the Lying Neoliberal Warmonger: It’s Important". The writer isn't stupid or uninformed or on the take, so the failure to recognize the immensity of the tragedy of a Clinton presidency, a trait riddled through the American 'left', is extremely disturbing, but par for the course for the most evil country in the universe. Even the progressives of an evil empire are blind bastards. It is not the right that defines how rotten you are, it is the left.

"Donald Trump is the least of the GOP’s problems". Telling concern trolling from the 'left'.

"Dershowitz will play Trump in Clinton’s debate rehearsal, WNYC reports".

"Turkey and Iran Reach Agreement on Conditions for Syria Peace". You have to wonder whether it is easier for Erdoğan to do it this way, rather than through a public agreement with Putin which would be to admit he has made a terrible mistake. "Erdoğan blames Isis for wedding blast in Turkey that killed at least 50".

"The politics of Jewish ethnocentrism". I don't know how Weiss lets Hirsh get this close to the truth line. This is right on the edge of calling Jews violent group supremacists. I believe commenters are permanently banned for coming close to suggesting this.

The funding by Soros of groups like J street doesn't mean Soros is anti-Zionist, it just proves that the concept of anti-Zionism is a lie. In fact, the entire Soros shtick is building up controlled opposition to manipulate people, allowing him to make money by speculating in financial instruments.

"Yes, Obama and Clinton Created ISIS – Too Bad Trump Can’t Explain How It Happened". The "undeclared Salafist principality in eastern Syria", i.e., Yinon, referred to in the DIA report, is key.

"Casuistry". Inherent in any mention of terrorism is the implied moral purity of the Empire.

"No ISIS There - Are U.S. Troops In Hasakah "Advising" Kurds To Attack The Syrian Army?" Remember, Barry was going to get out of Afghanistan and Iraq, and stay out of Syria and Libya. Shekels don't talk, they swear.

Saturday, August 20, 2016

"With the authenticity of the Shadow Brokers files being confirmed, the
biggest question is: who leaked them? There's a small chance that it was
a stupid accident in which an NSA hacker uploaded his whole toolkit to a
non-secure server and someone found it there.

Somewhat more likely seems the option that they came from an insider,
and in that case, this leak doesn't stand alone, but fits into a series
of leaks in which, since October 2013, highly sensitive NSA data sets
were published.

So almost unnoticed by the mainstream media and the general public,
someone was piggybacking on the Snowden-revelations with leaks that were
often more embarrassing for NSA than many reportings based upon the
documents from Snowden.

Again, obtaining such documents through hacking into NSA servers seems
less likely than the chance that someone from inside the agency took
them. If that person was Edward Snowden, then probably someone with
access to his documents could have started his own crusade against NSA.

If that person wasn't Snowden, then it's either another NSA employee who
was disgruntled and frustrated, or a mole for a hostile foreign
intelligence agency. For an individual without the protection of the
public opinion like Snowden, it must be much harder and riskier to
conduct these leaks than for a foreign state actor.

Former NSA counterintelligence officer John Schindler also thinks
there could have been a (Russian) mole, as the agency has a rather bad
track record in finding such spies. If this scenario is true, then it
would be almost an even bigger scandal than that of the Snowden-leaks."

From the article in the link above:

"However, it’s far more likely that this information was stolen by an insider. There’s something fishy about the official story here. It’s far-fetched to think a small group of unknown hackers could infiltrate NSA. Furthermore, explained a former agency scientist, the set-up implied in the account given by The Shadow Brokers makes little sense: “No one puts their exploits on a [command-and-control] server…That’s not a thing.” In other words, there was no “hack” here at all.

It’s much more plausible that NSA has a Kremlin mole (or moles) lurking in its ranks who stole this information and passed it to Russian intelligence for later use. This isn’t surprising, since NSA has known since at least 2010 of one or more Russian moles in its ranks and agency counterintelligence has yet to expose them. In truth, Snowden—a mere sysadmin, never the “spy” he claimed to be—was a Kremlin patsy, giving Russian intelligence cover to protect its actual moles lurking inside America’s most powerful intelligence agency.

NSA has a dismal counterintelligence record—its ranks having been penetrated by Kremlin moles over and over again since its establishment in 1952. I know because I used to work for agency counterintelligence and I located such moles. NSA leadership was never very eager to find them, knowing the bad headlines their exposure would bring, and repeated warnings from security experts led to no real action. So here we are, three years after Snowden, dealing with the awful consequences of allowing Russian moles to run amok inside NSA."

"Confirmed: hacking tool leak came from “omnipotent” NSA-tied group". Confirmed by Kaspersky, with strong ties to the Russian government: "The Company Securing Your Internet Has Close Ties to Russian Spies".

Letter from Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer trying to negotiate the cushy plea bargain that would eventually be granted, saying what a great guy he is and questioning what is a 'child' anyway (!), in which, on page 22, he states:

"Mr Epstein was part of the initial group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative . . ."

Thinking based entirely on Yinon: "Obama and Hillary DID Found ISIS - This 2012 US Government Memo Proves It".

It would be nice if they had the common decency to hide the sham until after the election: "Yachting with the enemy: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner take the jet skis out and relax on Democratic Hollywood billionaire David Geffen's $200m mega-yacht off the coast of Croatia".

"Can the 2016 election be rigged? You bet". Excellent, and by Roger Stone!

Everybody in Canada has the sads about this, but the terminally ill frontman/poet's last tour is quite the story: "The Friday OT: The Tragically Hip; Ahead by a century". The story behind another notable song: "Fifty Mission Cap references"

Thursday, August 18, 2016

"Why Iran Allowing Russia to Use Airbase Has ‘Great Tactical Importance’" "China ‘to provide aid, enhance military training’ in Syria – top army official" The world has correctly concluded that it is essential to get Syria de-terrorized before Hil is crowned.

"Here We Go Again: TIME Just Declared Russia, Syria, and Iran the New “Axis of Evil”"

Wednesday, August 17, 2016

"The disclosure of the file means that at least one other party — possibly another country’s spy agency — has had access to the same hacking tools used by the NSA and could deploy them against organizations that are using vulnerable routers and firewalls. It might also see what the NSA is targeting and spying on. And now that the tools are public, as long as the flaws remain unpatched, other hackers can take advantage of them, too."

So, it's probable that none of this would have happened had the Clintonistas and various neocons not tried to blame the Russians as a deflection/warmongering strategy. We'll see if the guilty are told (from the highest American levels) to take the hint and tone it down a notch.

George is working on another 'color revolution' in Armenia (and with the coup presumably wanted to turn both Turkey and Armenia simultaneously): "Why Anti-Corruption Protests Are Rising In Armenia". If Armenians are worried about corruption now, just look at what happened to Ukraine!!!

"Roundup: Online voting scare" It is literally the difference between living in a democracy and living in a dictatorship. Not being able to confirm a fair, secret vote is the same thing as not having a fair, secret vote.

Note that all the phony American polls are intended to set up a Clinton win by fraud as the (((media))) will be able to slough off complaints by referring to the polls.

"Russia Launches Massive Air Campaign To Stop U.S. Supported Al-Qaeda Attacks On Aleppo" The partial breaking of the siege by the human organ eaters may have been a blessing in disguise, as it is forcing the Russians to pay attention, with the possible Clinton inauguration day being the hard deadline to de-terrorize Syria.

"Michael Weiss and the Iran-U.S. Hardline Nexus That Led Iranian-American to Evin Prison". Useful, but you'll wince when you see Anne Applebaum described as "an award-winning writer who has documented the crimes of the Soviet gulag." Also: "Michael Weiss, the Neocon's Neocon".

Tweet by a pos who doesn't like to see truth written by a distinguished historian.

Saturday, August 13, 2016

"Stunning revelation: Wikileaks hack shows that Soros called the shots on US policy toward Albania". "How Secretary of State Hillary Clinton cared for Democratic donors". Will there ever come a point when people are brave enough to notice something which links all the 'donors'?

"96% Of Clinton Donations Went To The Clinton Foundation". "$2 billion Clinton Foundation: 10% for aid, ~50% looted by Bill & Hillary. ‘Missing/deleted’ e-mails will prove Hillary sold US State Dept ‘favors’ for Clinton Foundation ‘donations.’ Short video summaries, 64-minute full documentary".

"In her statement, she showed that she was allowing an
average of 50 per bottle for the wine. It seems to me that in the context of a claim under Schedule 1 to the Children Act, which must be for the maintenance of the child, I should not allow as high a figure as 10,500 per annum for wine, although I still allow a significant figure for wine."

"Algonquin College pulls plug on money-losing Saudi Arabian campus". I'm waiting in great anticipation for the firings and resignations of all those administrators involved.

"The Pictures Coming Out Of A Town Liberated From ISIS Are Stunning" Note the weirdness of the American propagandists (Yinon-induced schizophrenia): "The capture of the city comes on the heels of another set of rebels breaking a longstanding regime siege of the city of Aleppo, a major military success.".

Friday, August 12, 2016

"The Pentagon Money Pit". You have to wonder what it would take for Americans to realize they have a problem. Of course, the fact that the (((media))), Traditional Enemies Of Peace, completely hide the issue might have something to do with it. An example of loose change lost in the seat cushions: "Lost Iraqi Billions Found?".

Related (I really can't stress enough how all this fits into the General Conspiracy Theory):

"Noam Chomsky explains the value of holding your nose and voting for Hillary" (hil-arious that climate change denial is the ostensible issue given all the nothing that Barry has done over almost eight years!);

"Putin-Erdogan Meeting - Breakup, Breakdown". Hot air, and not even much of that, but we'll have to see how this plays out, especially as Erdoğan is now completely aware that the Americans just tried to have him killed, and the anti-imperialist alliance led by Putin (now under massive and concerted attack by the Traditional Enemies Of Peace) is the only other game in town.

Thursday, August 11, 2016

"Trump: Obama Founded ISIS (Updated)" I wonder what fanstasy the Clintonistas have about what Ambassador Stevens was doing in Benghazi. "To top it all, today there is overwhelming evidence of how the US contributed to the emergence of Daesh."

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

"Is The U.S. Behind Fethullah Gulen?" The negative conclusion is utterly undermined by the massive amount of evidence in the article.

"Turkey Failed Coup: Ties Emerge Between Hilary Clinton And Mysterious Islamic Cleric Fethullah Gulen". Gülen movement = (Muslim Brotherhood-like religious group) + (Scientology-like business cult), and you can see why such a thing would be like crack to a conservative with an authoritarian personality defect, and why the traditional Muslim Brotherhood would see this kind of movement as its ultimate enemy.

Tuesday, August 09, 2016

"The Elective Affinities of Hillary Clinton". Good summary of a remarkably and uniquely evil politician.

"Trump attacks Clinton after Iran executes nuclear scientist". The words 'our friend' - short for saying he was a CIA asset - may have resulted in the hanging, and you can indirectly blame Clinton for this, as the release of the emails was prompted by her impropriety in her email system (leaving aside the possible hacking risk).

Monday, August 08, 2016

"Official support for Israel boycott policy causes some Greens to fear for party’s future". Oh, the horrible things that happen when you let people vote.

Jews win gold, silver and bronze medals in concern trolling: "Black Lives Matter should change 'genocide' language — proudly". By the way, this is the archetype of what we could call Jewish rhetoric - confusing the whole debate into a quibble about words.

Of course it is genocide, on any possible meaning of the term and has been since the very beginning of the Jewish land theft project. They are intentionally killing a whole group of people in order to steal their land. No question whatsoever. "The Black Lives Matter platform: How the Jewish community got distracted by one word".

"Israel pops up in Gulf riding Arab coattails". Not domestically popular, and a move on the road to Saudi royal heads on pikes.

"Edward Snowden Is Not Dead: ‘He’s Fine’ Says Insider After Cryptic Code Tweet, Dead Man’s Switch Scare". Snowden seems to be releasing something to somebody, but the cognoscenti don't want us to know what is going on.

"Τhe USA and the coup in Turkey: new disturbing questions". Most of these are not particularly compelling, relying on Erdoğan actions or Erdoğan media, but the false story about Erdoğan seeking asylum in Germany is classic coup plotting, and the instigator of the story would have been involved in the coup."﻿Obama Expands the ISIS Bombing Campaign to a 4th Country, the Media Barely Notice". Barry restarts another War For The Jews - the one most associated with Hillary ("We Came, We Saw, He Died") - with no (((media))) coverage. What a shock!

Saturday, August 06, 2016

"Lead Attorney In Anti-Clinton DNC Fraud Case Mysteriously Found Dead". With Clinton power, the death list ramps up again.

"Pro-Israel Groups Smear the Movement for Black Lives for its Solidarity With Palestine". It all comes down to the universal battle against supremacism. See also: "The Shocking Story of Israel’s Disappeared Babies".

"Is the “Leaning Tower of San Francisco” the Only One?". Note the cutting of corners to save money (should I note that a 'terrorist' attack would fix everybody's problem?). Symbolic, like the F-35, or: "US Navy's newest $12.9bn supercarrier doesn't work: Most expensive warship ever built not ready for battle".

"US think-tank suggests cyber-attacks on Moscow Metro, St. Pete power grid, RT offices" From 2010: "The Insiduous Role of the Atlantic Council: Securing The 21st Century For NATO"

Friday, August 05, 2016

"Pentagon Papers, CIA and the Lies of Daniel Ellsberg" Paralleling the theory that the Snowden revelations were just an inter-agency rivalry. It could be that this is the only reason we ever find out about anything.

"Opposing the Discrimination of the JNF" No doubt 'donor' problems. Greens always disappoint.

". . . Clinton’s campaign has such strong persuasion going right now that she is successfully equating her actual misdeeds of the past with Trump’s imaginary mental issues and imaginary future misdeeds." If you believe the polls, which I don't.

"Why Do U.S. Experts Suddenly Find Syrian Rebel Sectarianism "Extraordinary"?" Noticing represents the realization that the various kinds of human organ eaters and child beheaders are actually going to lose.

Thursday, August 04, 2016

"How Not To Run An Anti-Trump Campaign". There is a remarkable combination of gloating that Clinton is so far ahead that her win is inevitable - a tactic which has already failed against Obama and, absent vote fraud, Sanders - and cries of terror that Trump is going to win anyway. The point of the exercise is not to beat Trump, but to convince themselves they haven't made the terrible mistake that they have made.

"Lurching Toward World War III". The most disturbing thing to watch was the turn of the Democrat supporters of Hillary into utterly depraved warmongers. She isn't even a charismatic speaker who could rouse them to blood thirst - no, they saw that all her donors were Traditional Enemies of Peace, and so blew with the shekel wind of war. They don't even seem to realize that they have become - and are intended to replace - the people they so despised during the Bush Administration.

"Lessons from the Deep State" Napolitano makes the claim against Clinton that was made against Pollard!

"Russia debates Turkey". Meta-analysis based on the sources of funding of the analysts.

"Kerry's And Al-Qaeda's "Very Different Track" Attack On Aleppo Fails". Someone continues to pay the salaries of the 'moderate' human organ eaters.

Wednesday, August 03, 2016

"The Diary of Anne Frank 5.0, an update". You have to wonder if it will be quietly phased out of the curriculum, or will the mind controllers try to tough it out and carry on as if the family hadn't grasped their way to a mockery.

"Baroness Royall report reveals Oxford Labour students engaged in antisemitism". What a great headline.

"The Exoneration of Milosevic: the ICTY’s Surprise Ruling". Also: "The Murder of Slobodan Milosevic".

"EU trade policy ‘close to death’ if Canada deal fails". Note how they will pretend it has been approved and then no doubt claim that too many business deals have been made based on it for it to be reversed. Hanging is too good for these scum.

"Khizr Khan and the Triumph of Democratic Militarism". Trump got the yips on a very easy one inch putt (though he still didn't say the caricature of what he said that came out of the (((media)))). "Why Did Khizr Khan Delete His Law Firm's Website?"

The 'stabilizers' destabilize: "Tomgram: Nick Turse, The U.S. Military Pivots to Africa and That Continent Goes Down the Drain".

Tuesday, August 02, 2016

"Well, WikiLeaks has become the rebel library of Alexandria. It is the
single most significant collection of information that doesn’t exist
elsewhere, in a searchable, accessible, citable form, about how modern
institutions actually behave. And it’s gone on to set people free from
prison, where documents have been used in their court cases; hold the CIA
accountable for renditions programs; feed into election cycles, which
have resulted in the termination of, in some case—or contributed to the
termination of governments, in some cases, taken the heads of
intelligence agencies, ministers of defense and so on. So, you know, our
civilization can only be as good as our knowledge of what our
civilization is. We can’t possibly hope to reform that which we do not
understand.
So, those Hillary Clinton emails, they connect together with the
cables that we have published of Hillary Clinton, creating a rich
picture of how Hillary Clinton performs in office, but, more broadly,
how the U.S. Department of State operates. So, for example, the
disastrous, absolutely disastrous intervention in Libya, the destruction
of the Gaddafi government, which led to the occupation of ISIS
of large segments of that country, weapons flows going over to Syria,
being pushed by Hillary Clinton, into jihadists within Syria, including ISIS,
that’s there in those emails. There’s more than 1,700 emails in Hillary
Clinton’s collection, that we have released, just about Libya alone."

"The Clintons and their Foundation run the biggest futures market for
favors in the nation’s capital. There are people who have been holding
onto Clinton Favor Bonds for thirty years, waiting for them to mature.
Many were hoping they could call in or cash in favors from the Clintons
in 2008. That didn’t work out. Now, the Clintons owe even more people
and even more people owe the Clintons, and the only way for them to
settle this byzantine network of handshakes is for Hillary to become
president. If she had had to run against a low-energy guy like Jeb, she
would’ve mopped the floor with him. But this might not have been her
year to make that futures market worth anything."

"It’s worth repeating: there is no precedent in modern
history for such a mass display of disunity by elected delegates at a
national political convention as occurred this week in Philadelphia.
Hundreds of people elected at primaries and caucuses not only vacated
the Wells Fargo arena, they subsequently staged incendiary acts of civil
disobedience and stared down Pennsylvania State Police riot cops—all to
express the depth of their opposition to Hillary. Then, on Thursday,
swaths of delegates chanted, booed, jeered, and walked out on Hillary
during her nomination-acceptance speech. The closest analog may be the
infamous Democratic convention of 1968, which erupted into turmoil
mainly over the Vietnam War. But that turmoil mostly had to do with
external protests met with violence by Chicago police. These acts of
rebellion in Philadelphia were carried out by duly credentialed
delegates.

The lack of coverage the tumult received, despite its
historical significance, is indicative of a wider problem that Sanders
supporters have long identified: few members of the elite media are
sympathetic to the “Bernie or Bust” movement, which has resulted in
disproportionately little media attention. Conversely, the failed
#NeverTrump movement had countless devotees active in elite political,
media, and ancillary spheres, so it received outsized coverage relative
to the actual number of GOP voters who supported that position.
Furthermore, well-placed journalists tend to be fascinated by
conservative protest movements, but scornful and dismissive of left-wing
protest movements.

As a consequence of all this, perhaps there was no one proximate to
Hillary who could have conveyed to her the extent to which the activist
core of the Democratic party holds her in contempt. The ramifications
may become clearer to her in November."

"The Dawning of the Age of Non-Terrorist Terrorism" is smarter than "The Daily Daesh D-Day Dilemma", though the comment on Hollande's ridiculous 'retaliatory' murder spree in Syria is warranted. Also: "False Flags Fluttering in the Empire's Hot Air". There is definitely a strategy of tension as part of the organized Islamophobia.

"The New York Times’s Outrage at Trump’s Refusal to Demonize Russia" "Russia Expert Stephen Cohen: Trump Wants To Stop The New Cold War, But The American Media Just Doesn't Understand"

Greenwald on Trump:

"Trump comes from this ideological position of Charles Lindbergh, Father
Coughlin, America First, this Buchananite mindset. Buchanan is always an
advocate of not going to war with dictators, let’s get along with them,
let’s trade with them, let’s have them serve our interest. That’s why
[Pat] Buchanan was against the Iraq war and almost every other
intervention. So even though [Trump] is a clown and an idiot and
mentally unstable, there is this coherent philosophy that is
noninterventionist, isolationist, and uber-nationalistic. In that
context it makes sense that he admires Putin and wants to reduce the
level of tension between the United States and Russia."

"Renouncing Jewishness: Shlomo Sand and Gilad Atzmon". It is strikingly odd to read someone writing about Atzmon who treats Atzmon with respect.

"The Democratic pandering was to an America that wants to believe we
have good Muslims (who express their goodness by sending their kids to
fight our wars) and “they” have the bad Muslims (who express their
badness by sending their kids to fight their wars.) The pandering was to
the cozy narrative that makes the majority of Americans comfortable
with perpetual war in the Middle East and Africa.

MORE: At one point Khan challenged Trump, “You have
sacrificed nothing and no one.” True. But let us also remember the
Clinton family sent no one to war. Their daughter did not serve any more
than any Trump kid. Bill and Hillary served exactly as many days as
Trump and Melania. Khan should have been more inclusive in his
condemnation.
I would also like to ask Khan how he reconciles his son’s death with
the fact that only a few years later Iraq is still deep in war."